In 1 707, Queen Anne and the British Parliamentcaused to be passed an act calling for the union of theblended crosses on a blue field on every flag and bannerof Great Britain. By this act the red cross of St. Georgeon a white field was removed from the Red Ensign and theunion of the crosses on a… … This modification of the Red Ensign, the Red UnionEnsign, became our flag, (Massachusetts Bay, NewHampshire, Connecticut, Rhodeisland and ProvidencePlantations, New York, New Jersey, the counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Pennsylvania, Mary-land, Virginia, Carolina and Georgia),…
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